Birmingham New Street Station - BR Period Locomotives: Ex-LMS 4MT 2-6-4T No 42579 is seen alongside New Street No 1 Signal Cabin as it enters Worcester Street tunnel on an up working

LMS Routes

London North Western Railway:

Rugby to Wolverhampton
Rugby to Leamington
Rugby to Market Harborough
Nuneaton to Leamington
Coventry Loop Line
Leamington to Weedon
Trent Valley Line
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Birmingham New Street to Harborne
Birmingham-Soho-
Perry Barr-Birmingham

Midland Railway:

Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Evesham to Birmingham
Hampton in Arden to Whitacre
Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Rugby to Leicester
Water Orton to Walsall
Halesowen to Northfield

Stratford Midland Junction Railway

The Shakespeare Route

BR Period Locomotives: lnwrbns_br1770

Ex-LMS 4MT 2-6-4T No 42579 is seen alongside New Street No 1 Signal Cabin as it enters Worcester Street tunnel on an up working

Ex-LMS 4MT 2-6-4T No 42579 is seen working hard as it enters Worcester Street tunnel with a train to Coventry on 19th March 1954. Note the bell hanging from the side of New Street No 1 Signal Cabin which the signalman used to attract the attention of staff working nearby. Built by the North British Locomotive Company in September 1936 No 42579 was to remain in service until June 1962 when it was withdrawn from Bangor shed to be scrapped in December 1962 by Crewe works.